Re: Traffic monitor awol.

GeorgeV

"Incidentally, installation over the top of the old version went well" - well maybe not so well.
I had repeated instances of "Internet at risk. Your web browsing is safe from phishing. Fix now." Tried resetting defaults but no improvement.
So I uninstalled using the ZA utility and reinstalled. Hopefully it'll behave itself now.

Two points
1. Internet at risk. Your web browsing is safe from phishing. What exactly is that telling me? Seems to be a contradiction.

2. While agreeing that the traffic monitor was, to a degree, a "fluff feature", it did have the benefit of being an obvious tell tale if ZA had stopped working. Any plans to incorporate some sort of fault indication in the notification icon, say colour change or blinking?

Re: Traffic monitor awol.

"Incidentally, installation over the top of the old version went well" - well maybe not so well.

Two points
1. Internet at risk. Your web browsing is safe from phishing. What exactly is that telling me? Seems to be a contradiction.

2. While agreeing that the traffic monitor was, to a degree, a "fluff feature", it did have the benefit of being an obvious tell tale if ZA had stopped working. Any plans to incorporate some sort of fault indication in the notification icon, say colour change or blinking?

Thank you for your Feedback..

1.) Internet at risk.,may be due to Conflict with other Security programs blocking ZoneAlarm Security Toolbar.

2.) No, Sorry there are no Plans at this time to return the Traffic monitor.
or anything like it..

Re: Traffic monitor awol.

Not really bothered about traffic monitor per se. More interested in a feature that would tell me if the firewall's gone down for any reason. At present, you don't know unless you go looking.

You Welcome...

a.) If the Firewall goes down for some reason, 1.) either access to/from the Internet will be Blocked so that hackers will be blocked, or 2.) if Windows Firewall will be started in the absence of Za Firewall..

b.) you don't know unless you go looking..

unfortunately, you have to look at the monitor screen, Mouse over the ZA Tray Icon, and The Green Check marks let you know your protected.

Re: Traffic monitor awol.

Originally Posted by qwertybollocks

More interested in a feature that would tell me if the firewall's gone down for any reason. At present, you don't know unless you go looking.

You could also do the following : Under Windows Security Center on left side you'll see Resources.Click " Change the way Security Center alerts me ".Put a check in Alert Settings / Firewall " Alert me if my computer might be at risk because of my firewall settings ".

Re: Traffic monitor awol.

GeorgeV

"Mouse over the ZA Tray Icon, and The Green Check marks let you know your protected" - not on my free version.
Mouse over tray icon gives message "ZoneAlarm your computer is protected". But I was getting this message when I also had the "Internet at risk" message.

"unfortunately, you have to look at the monitor screen"

Always the best place to start, but I would have thought it would have been simple to do something similar to Avast. Anything off/disabled overprints an A on the tray icon - instantly visible with a glance.

Sky Soldiers

All already ticked. But if ZoneAlarm didn't "know" it was partially off, then I wouldn't expect the Security Centre to react.

With a bit of luck, these glitches may have gone with the clean installation. I'll continue checking the control centre frequently until I'm satisfied the problem's gone.